Yaro Starak is the only person who has been able to come close to fully explaining “trackbacks” to me. Until today.

I posted a question at Easy WordPress forum ages ago and received notification of a response today posted by Gordon who recommended I watch a video.

It’s the best explanation I’ve been able to find so I thought I’d share it with you in case you are as unclear as I have been.

 

Marketing with Trackbacks is a good linking strategy so go for it!Wizzer

I’ve been working on building the backlinks to this blog by posting relevant comments on other blogs but… it’s hard work!

Commenting isn’t the hard part - finding relevant blogs is. I’ve spent time reading blogs I’ve found on MyBlogLog and Fame Me but unfortunately most of them aren’t what I’m looking for - either the content isn’t appropriate, the quality poor or the page rank and visitors so low that a link wouldn’t help much.

How much time I’ve wasted is anyone’s guess! But a few days ago I found the solution and it’s FREE (at least the basic version is).

Comment Hut does all the hard work for you, leaving you the relatively simple task of writing your comment. If you are building backlinks to your blog you really need to take a look at this. You simply enter the word or words that are relevant to your blog (say dogs for example) and Comment Hut will go out and find the blogs with relevant content BUT only tells you about those that allow comments. No point in looking at those that don’t help your backlinking strategy!

When you have the list you can then check the page rank and with a single click you visit the site and leave your comment with your URL - instant success.

The basic free version searches Wordpress blogs but if you want more scope to include other platforms such as Typepad, Drupal, Squidoo,  etc then you may want to take a look at the paid for version. I’m not sure if there is any real advantage to looking at all of the platforms apart from the obvious increase in blogs available on which to post. Someone will no doubt tell me if links from a variety of platforms are better than just one for Search Engine Optimisation. It is really simple to download and use - the Comment Hut site has a video that explains everything but it really is so straightforward it’s not difficult to install the software or use the features.

If you do get this program please come back and let me know your results. Good luck. Wizzer

You probably know that Website Directory Submission is quickly becoming a very popular and easy way to get quality, one way links to your website.

These kind of links are exactly what the search engines are looking for. The websites with more quality, one way links are typically the sites that rank the highest.

The problem is really the time is takes to search out the directories and manually submit to them. I outsourced this job when I started Perfect Golf recently but obviously there is a significant financial cost for doing this.

With that said, there are several websites directory submission programs on the market. The best and easiest to use is a new program created by Brad Callen, called Directory Submitter. The software currently contains around 1700 website directories, all free. It is the most straightforward program that we’ve come across, in that all you need to do is:

1. Input your website details (i.e. title, description, URL, etc.) into the software
2. Click on the directory you want to submit to

The program will automatically fill in your website details. Then, you simply click the submit button and your website is instantly submitted to the directory.

Next step: move to the next directory, go through the list, and by the time you’re finished you’ll have roughly 1500 one way links pointing to your website.

I can’t think of an easier way to get links. Of course, if you’re going to get links this quickly, it’s important to vary your website title (anchor text) every 20-30 links or so, to make things look more natural to the search engines.

You can do this very easily via Directory Submitter when you create your project in the beginning. The software is constantly being updated and there is an incredible community of users established that all work together to make the software better and better, so you know you’re getting great value for the money.
Even better value the standard version is still free!

To check out the software, go here:

Wizzer

P.S. Learn more about Brad Callen and his products at the Squidoo lens